Word: restraint
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Black said yesterday that the Reagan Administration may propose the elimination of the NDSL subsidies for 1983 in accordance with its program of fiscal restraint...
...least for the moment. Another argument was that some gesture had to be made: mere silence would be perceived as acquiescence to an atrocity. More than that, it remained possible that Moscow would see the sanctions as only a first step, which might give the Soviets pause for restraint. Said one senior U.S. diplomat: "If we had come down like a ton of bricks at the outset, we would have no options left...
...likely to see a lot of self-restraint," he added, until the Soviets "recognize the risks" of continuing to sacrifice their country's future well-being...
...another battle of wills between the White House and Capitol Hill on fiscal restraint, and the ambiguous outcome did credit to neither branch of Government. In what Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin aptly described as the "lost weekend," Ronald Reagan responded to his first defeat in Congress by casting his first veto. The President did so in defense of frugal government. Yet he acted at a moment when the Government was technically out of funds, and for one astonishing day, the federal bureaucracy actually began to shut down. Placed in a no-win situation, Congress grudgingly gave Reagan...
...talk with the Soviets about arms limitations, to heed the protests in Europe and across the U.S. against nuclear weapons, to keep our foreign-aid programs strong, to use words instead of bullets. Haig's mission to Mexico City last week, yet another maneuver in the cause of restraint, was designed to ease fears of American military intervention in the Caribbean, and to try to get Mexico to help ease the crises in Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Secretary is convinced that nonaligned countries are ready to tilt our way, despite all the surface squabbles and the complaints about...